How to convert String to Date in Java - SimpleDateFormat Example

SimpleDateFormat in Java can be used to convert String to Date in Java. java.text.SimpleDateFormat is an implementation of DateFormat which defines a date pattern and can convert a particular String which follows that pattern into Date in Java.This is the second part of the article on java.util.Date and String in Java. In the first part we have seen How to convert Date to String in Java. SimpleDateFormat accepts a String in any date format e.g. yyyyMMdd is a date pattern and  20110924 is a String in that format. Now you want to create a java.util.Date object from this String. In this Java tutorial we will see list steps to convert String to Date in Java and then we will see different examples of SimpleDateFormat with different date patterns e.g. ddMMyy or dd-MM-yyyy. Though converting String to Date is quite easy using SimpleDateFormat, but you need to remember that SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe, which means you can not share same instance of SimpleDateFormat between multiple threads. Avoid storing SimpleDateFormat in static variable and if you want to safely share or reuse SimpleDateFormat, you need to make it thread-safe. One way is to use ThreadLocal variable in Java to make SimpleDateFormat thread-safe, as shown in this example.

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